Use innocence in a sentence
Sentences starting with innocence
- Innocence pitted against sophistry and wile and might. [9]
Sentences ending with innocence
- One must be very far gone if some note of it does not for a moment bring back the tenderest recollections of the days of joyous innocence. [4]
- He sent me to say would you come directly, and that he knowed all about Kit, and could save him yet, and prove his innocence. [12]
- I well knew that his way of thinking would be with my testimony, and that the gilt name on the edition de luxe had done little towards convincing him of Mr. Allen's innocence. [9]
- She knew what she had to face at Tralee, and that she had no proof of her perfect innocence. [11]
- We shall be set free, and the eyes of Cambyses and of our blind and infatuated fathers will be opened to see our innocence. [10]
- It is fairly scintillating with fictitious innocence. [5]
- He is taken off, humbly protesting his innocence. [12]
- In the clatter of her loom she had heard nothing of what had been going on till a few minutes ago; now she was ready to swear to the luckless Hiram's innocence. [10]
- That crude way of appealing to this Government for help in a cause which has no money in it, and no politics, rises before me again in all its admirable innocence! [5]
- But--but in spite of all this--there thundered at Venters some truth that lifted its voice higher than the clamoring facts of dishonor, some truth that was the very life of her beautiful eyes; and it was innocence. [13]
Sentences containing innocence two or more times
- At such times her newly awakened innocence (if it might be called such--pathetic innocence, in truth! [9]
More example sentences with the word innocence in them
- Misrepresenting facts, in your simple innocence, has damaged your reputation with the soulless usurper. [5]
- He said he would follow it up with a list of the previous plays of the kind, and in his innocence would have carried them back to the Flood. [5]
- She was bounding with youth, health, and innocence, and good humor. [4]
- But never again will I cross this threshold uninvited, or enter a house where right is trodden underfoot, where defenceless innocence is insulted and abandoned to despair. [10]
- In the shadows where his nature dwelt now he would not allow her good innocence and truth to enter. [11]
- What their homes were to them, these fellaheen, dragged forth to defend their country, to go into the desert and waste their lives under leaders tyrannous, cruel, and incompetent, his old open life, his innocence, his integrity, his truthfulness and character, were to him. [11]
- The fall of virtue, the ruin of innocence, would be vividly brought home. [11]
- He was angry too: angry at Detricand, angry at Guida for her very innocence, and because she had caught and held even the slight line of association Detricand had thrown. [11]
- They had meant to revive the great story for their own people and the Indians--a homely, beautiful object-lesson, in an Eden--like innocence and quiet and repose; but behold the world had invaded them! [11]
- It was hard to protest his innocence, for the landlord was ready to swear concerning a quarrel he had seen when he opened the door for a moment. [11]
- It was on this visit also that the Senator made the acquaintance of Mr. Washington Hawkins, and was greatly taken with his innocence, his guileless manner and perhaps with his ready adaptability to enter upon any plan proposed. [5]
- The officer believed this strange traveller, jumped out of the carriage, flourishing his scourge and calling to his men: "This nobleman has come on purpose to prove Bartja's innocence, and must be taken to the king at once. [10]
- Can you endure the thought that by your hand innocence may be consigned to vice, the rose trodden under foot in the mud? [10]
- He showed them the sweet young Ruth, lying down in her innocence at the feet of the lord of the manor. [6]
- She would tell the man who had said no word in defense of her, done nothing to protect her, who let the worst be believed, without one protest of her innocence, what she thought of him. [11]
- I believe in the innocence of the unfortunate Philotas, but if he had committed a hundred murders, after this present I would procure his freedom all the same. [10]
- Ptolemy had intrusted the execution of this severe punishment to Alexander's former comrade as the most trustworthy and discreet of his subjects, but rejected, with angry curtness, Philippus's attempt to uphold the innocence of his friend Archias. [10]
- Cecil Grainger, with the air of one who had pulled aside the curtain and revealed this vision of beauty and innocence, crossed the room to welcome her. [9]
- Have you made that model of Innocence that is to have my forehead, and hair parted like mine! [6]
- In the days that followed, Venters balanced perpetually in mind this haunting conception of innocence over against the cold and sickening fact of an unintentional yet actual gift. [13]
- I would rather tear the crown from the head of yonder image of the Virgin than do aught to this sweet innocence for which she could not thank me. [10]
- It was the symbol of youth and innocence and home. [11]
- In poor little Susan's letter there was some allusion to a bust of Innocence which the young artist had begun, but of which he had said nothing in his answer to her. [6]
- Was there ever such innocence in a creature so full of life? [6]
- If the little spotted fawn can think, it must seem to her a queer world in which the advent of innocence is hailed by the baying of fierce hounds and the "ping" of the rifle. [4]
- She had felt so secure in her innocence, and the countess had interceded for her so cleverly that, absorbed by anxieties concerning Eva, Cordula, and her mother, she had already half forgotten the disagreeable incident. [10]
- Here was no simple, sentimental case he might formerly have imagined, of trusting innocence betrayed, but a mixture of good and evil, selfishness and unselfishness. [9]
- In her innocence she had believed the voters to perform this function. [9]
- As surely as she felt her own innocence she must succeed in proving it, and with this consciousness she cried out to the Queen in a tone of touching entreaty: "O your Majesty, do not leave me without hearing me! [10]
- It takes a sharp observer to tell innocence from assurance. [4]
- Confident in her sense of innocence, she had looked forward calmly to her fate building her hopes on the much lauded justice of the Arab judges. [10]
- Without pretending, he says, to decide on Burr's innocence or guilt, "his situation is such as should appeal eloquently to the feelings of every generous bosom. [4]
- But for a savin' innocence you'd have made yourself low an' vile-- betrayin' yourself, betrayin' me--all to bind my hands an' keep me from snuffin' out Mormon life. [13]
- At length he said: "Marmion, I said suburban innocence and original sin, but you've a grip on the law of square and compass too. [11]
- The finely-cut nostrils rose and fell with her regular breathing, and she lay there, a picture of innocence, of peace, smiling in dreams, and of the slumber that the gods bestow on early youth, when care has not yet come. [10]
- The North Wind raised his hands to heaven in token of his innocence, and then spread his palms outward. [9]
- After I had proved the lady's innocence--you understand, after I had proved the lady's innocence to him--" "Yes, I understand," came the hoarse reply. [11]
- Her trustful innocence perhaps may protect her better than anxious precautions. [10]
- It was his opinion that such a letter, written with well-simulated asinine innocence and gush would have gotten his ignorance and stupidity an amount of newspaper abuse worth six fortunes to him, and not purchasable for twice the money. [5]
- But sometimes we only hear It, our own soul's oracle, while yet our years are few, and we have not passed that frontier between innocence and experience, reality and pretence. [11]
- Croesus went at once to meet her, told her what had happened, suppressing as many painful details as possible, confirmed her in her belief of the innocence of the accused, and then took her to the bedside of the king. [10]
- He was quick of wit; the Queen's meaning was clear to him; he rose with seeming innocence to the fly, and she landed him at the first toss. [11]
- Other subjects were of no concern to Jack, but that quaint, inscrutable innocence of his I could not get Williams to put into the picture. [5]
- His marvellous innocence of look and his peasant openness hid, I saw, great shrewdness and intelligence--an admirable man for Vaudreuil's purpose, as admirable for mine. [11]
- And the hell of it is that in spite of her innocence and charm she's--she's not what she seems! [13]
- In the depths of his soul he believed in her innocence, yet he avoided confessing it. [10]
- For one brief moment he, too, had been tempted to doubt her innocence. [10]
- How real this merry sport made the distress of persecuted innocence, the terrors and charm of the forest, the joys and splendours of the fairy realm! [10]
- People no longer looked with distant dislike at the prisoner, but began to see innocence in his grim silence, disdain only in his surly defiance. [11]
- The other anchorites long sought him in vain, as well as bishop Agapitus, who had learned from Petrus that the Alexandrian had been punished and expelled in innocence, and who desired to offer him pardon and consolation in his own person. [10]
- That was very like a threat, but it was veiled by a look of genial innocence which Ismail admired greatly. [11]
- A few hours later a messenger arrived from Croesus with news that the innocence of Bartja and his friends had been proved, and that Nitetis was, to all intents and purposes, cleared also. [10]
- His face, despite its fine, rounded wrinkles, had an expression of innocence and youth, his voice was pleasant and musical. [2]
- But she concealed it, and crossing her arms she said resolutely and with dignity: "Go your way--through life with your Ovid, and your gods of love, but do not attempt to crush innocence under the wheels of your chariot. [10]
- Oh, yes, for innocence is delicate and sensitive. [10]
- The simplicity and innocence and sincerity and unconsciousness of the old farmer are perfectly simulated, and the result is a performance which is thoroughly charming and delicious. [5]
- At least I, in the innocence of my heart, thought so until I was forcibly enlightened. [9]
- Is the pathos in the eyes of the Beatrice Cenci from her guilt or her innocence? [5]
- She remembered how, in her innocence, she had believed that the people had given Jethro his power,--in those days when she was so proud of that very power,--now she knew that he had wrested it from them. [9]
- He hears that his innocence is established, and that he is pardoned. [12]
- Should it surprise him that the pure innocence which filled her whole being was expressed also in her letter, if she summoned him, not to idle love-dalliance but to a covenant of souls, a mutual conflict for what was highest and most sacred? [10]
- How, she asked herself in her innocence, was any one, even Uncle Jethro, to struggle with a railroad? [9]
- You have come here with the light of innocence and truth about you. [11]
- He gloried in her innocence, and it was pleasant to dazzle her with impressions of his cosmopolitanism. [9]
- The trouble was he could not absolutely swear innocence of the crime. [11]
- And when, afterwards, he came to know the truth, and of her innocence, from the chief eunuch who with his last breath cleared her name, a terrible anger and despair had come upon him. [11]
- It alone should have proclaimed abroad her innocence, though she said no word in testimony. [11]
- He would sooner have dared clasp in his arms the image of a beautiful Madonna than this embodiment of pure, helpless, gracious innocence. [10]
- The minority would have based their belief that the prisoner had a chance of escape, not on his possible innocence, not on insufficient evidence, but on a curious faith in the prisoner's lawyer. [11]
- If the reader has seen youth and innocence sitting in the seat of justice, with age and experience at the bar, he has mistaken Cynthia. [9]
- As an artist Hadrian ought not to have vilified beauty, as a man he ought not to have insulted unprotected innocence. [10]
- At first this had startled her, but she believed her uncle's assurance that this examination would fully prove her innocence before the eyes of the whole world. [10]
- The venerable Horapollo had already made them out, and was quite ready to read to the judges all that the accused--who by his own account, was a spotless dove--had written in his innocence and truthfulness for his fair one. [10]
- Anyone could have guessed that the shopkeepers paid him a percentage on the sales, but in our blessed innocence we didn't until this feature of his conduct grew unbearably prominent. [5]
- So armed, Byles Gridley, A. M., champion of unprotected innocence, grasped his ivory-handled cane and sallied forth on his way to The Poplars. [6]
- He has erred greatly, yet I think we need not judge him till after the holy day, and, in consideration of his former innocence, need not deprive him of the honorable office. [10]
- Could Cynthia ever go back to him again, and live with him happily, without seeing many things which before were hidden by reason of her youth and innocence? [9]
- Verily, I would gladly give half my kingdom, to be convinced of the innocence of men so nearly related to me. [10]
- But Joan had fortunately escaped them all, some by the protecting luck which attends upon ignorance and innocence, some by happy accident, the others by force of her best and surest helper, the clear vision and lightning intuitions of her extraordinary mind. [5]
- Him Nature giveth for defence His formidable innocence. [6]
- But if his falsehoods are distressing, his innocence and his ignorance are enough to make one burn the book and despise the author. [5]
- You're the finest example of suburban innocence and original sin I've seen this last quarter of a century, wherein I've kept the world--and you--from tottering to destruction. [11]
- This is the Easter bonnets, most delightful flowers of the year, emblems of innocence, hope, devotion. [4]
- The war-drum would drown any small human cries of suspicion or outraged innocence. [11]
- I could not do it till the governor had declared my innocence. [11]
- Surely the woman's crime was not a dark one; it was injured innocence smiting depravity, tyranny and lust. [11]
- My innocence will come out, mother, and I shall be brought back again; I feel confidence in that. [12]
- As soon as Caesar should have left the city and she had evaded his pursuit, the citizens would be easily persuaded of his innocence. [10]
- Tell us, Croesus, by the friendship which has subsisted between us up to this clay, what has induced you to judge Bartja so harshly, when only a short time ago you believed in his innocence? [10]
- Had not the brother of Rigby the chemist borne witness with his own eyes to her complete innocence? [11]
- There was a bland smile on his face, a look of innocence in his magnificent blue eye. [11]
- She serves us better and more eagerly than many a man, and while I appreciate your daughter's beauty, she never tires of lauding the winning charm of her innocence. [10]
- She could not be better cared for than with Rufinus and Paula; but if I could suppose," and he raised his voice, while his eyes took a sinister and threatening expression, "if I could suppose that her sacred and suffering innocence were merely an excuse. [10]
- Notwithstanding her persistent banter, she had a most inviting innocence of manner, almost an ingenuousness, that well became her exquisite beauty. [4]
- I'm as worldly as I can be"--this with a look of innocence that denied the self-accusation--"but I haven't any call to marry into Exeter Hall and that sort of thing. [4]
- But it's true--true as her innocence. [13]
- Preserve your innocence, and wherever you go you will bring love, as flowers spring in every spot that is trodden by the golden foot of Hathor. [10]
- The North Wind and two others were easily singled out as the leaders, and were straightway escorted to the garrison house, their air of injured innocence availing them not a whit. [9]
- She--she is innocence and simplicity itself, in spite of her roguish sauciness. [10]
- Here the poet and orator have stood and gazed with wonder and with admiration; they have dwelt upon her innocence, the ornament of all her virtues. [5]
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